Contras’ City
Alternate title(s): City of Contrasts
Foreign Title:
Date: January 01, 1969 to December 31, 1969
Dates Note: 1969
Country of Origin:
Senegal
Place of Origin: Senegal
Languages:
Wolof
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Additional Info:
Restored in 2020 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in association with the Criterion Collection. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers and UNESCO—in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna—to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.
Curator Notes
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Djibril Diop MambétyDescription:
Mambéty’s first film, a tour of Dakar, “sensitively, imaginatively, and puckishly captures the series of contrasts that would define the tumultuous social and ideological climate that would explode in Senegal in 1968” (Documenta Madrid).
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